Avoiding a JavaScript Monoculture

JavaScript, as a language, has some fundamental shortcomings — I think the majority of us agree on that much. But everyone has a different opinion on what precisely the shortcomings are.

Christoffer Petterson recently wrote that “JavaScript just needs to become a better language” — about the shortcomings of the JavaScript standard run-time, and how this creates a culture of micro-packages and polyfills.